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China cuts levy on loss-making domestic airlines
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has cut an annual infrastructure levy on domestic airlines, in a move to help the carriers back into profit. Until now, airlines have had to pay 8% of their domestic turnover into the CAAC's Domestic Infrastructure Construction Fund, which finances airport improvements. ...
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Claiming a crisis
Tim Furniss/LONDON One more failure and the space insurance business could go into the red Space industry insurers are nervously tallying up their accounts in the wake of 27 loss claims filed for satellite and launch failures last year. The business faces a crisis after meeting more than $1.7 ...
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Good business
Air Namibia plans to make its fortune by cutting costs, increasing income and building partnerships Stewart Penney/WINDHOEKA new managing director at Air Namibia is determined to reverse the carrier's flagging fortunes and prepare it for privatisation by aggressively attacking costs while increasing income and creating a series of alliances. The ...
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Asian lows
Asia's economic woes continue to trouble the region's airlines Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPOREAsia's airlines are wallowing in the depths of the region's economic crisis, with traffic and yields down and little evidence of any imminent recovery. The depth of the crisis was highlighted by Cathay Pacific Airways' recent revelation that it fell ...
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Spanair is first to order heavy A321 as it opts for Airbus fleet
Andrew Doyle/LONDONSpanair plans to launch a new high gross weight version of the Airbus A321 as part of its commitment for up to 45 Airbus narrowbodies to replace its ageing Boeing MD-80 fleet.The carrier - Spain's second largest after Iberia - has signed a memorandum of understanding covering 21 firm ...
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F-2 wings
Lockheed Martin has delivered the first of an anticipated 104 left-hand wingbox assemblies for the Mitsubishi F-2A/B fighter to Japan. Lockheed Martin has a 40% share in the production of the F-16-based fighter, with Mitsubishi supplying the right and remaining left-hand wing boxes. Source: Flight International
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Turk Hellfire
Turkey has become the first international customer for the anti-ship warhead version of the Hellfire II missile, placing a $6.7 million contract with Boeing/Lockheed Martin joint venture Hellfire Systems for 84 missiles to arm Sikorsky S-70B Seahawk naval helicopters. Source: Flight International
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German AAR-54
Northrop Grumman is to demonstrate its AAR-54(V) passive missile approach warning system on a German air force Transall C-160. Flight tests are to begin in the second quarter. Germany will conduct side-by-side evaluations of missile warning systems in European conditions. Source: Flight International
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On track
NASA has started full-engine, hot-fire testing of the low-cost Fastrac rocket engine at its Marshall spaceflight centre in Huntsville, Alabama, with a 20s full-power test to demonstrate the operation of the complete engine system. Up to 84 engine test firings are planned this year. The 45,000lb-thrust (200kN) Fastrac will be ...
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Satellite investment
Hughes Electronics says it will invest $1.4 billion in the multimedia Spaceway satellite system for North America. Two satellites will be launched by 2002. Plans for an international Spaceway system are being made, with international partnerships. Source: Flight International
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B-SAT contract
Orbital Sciences (OSC) has finalised and signed the contract to build two B-SAT spacecraft for Broadcasting Satellite System of Japan. The satellites will be launched by Ariane boosters in 2000 and 2001. OSC was selected to negotiate the contract in November 1998. Source: Flight International
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Metric range
Metric Systems is to lease rangeless air combat training systems to the US Air Force for use with Boeing F-15 and Lockheed Martin F-16 units in Europe. The contract, potentially worth $40 million, includes Metric's global positioning system rangeless instrumentation pod. Source: Flight International
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Phantom Works wins UCAV contract
Boeing's Phantom Works has won the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract to demonstrate an unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) designed for strike and defence-suppression missions. The company has received a 42-month, $131 million cost-sharing contract to build and test a UCAV demonstrator system. Two tail-less, stealthy ...
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Routes
United Express carrier Atlantic Coast Airlines will begin twice daily services between Savannah, Georgia, and Chicago O'Hare in May, and four-times daily service between Columbia, South Carolina, and Washington Dulles on 25 May, using 50-seat Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets. United Airlines is introducing the Boeing 747-400 on to transatlantic ...
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Bomber roadshow
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC The USAF is pushing its bombers to the forefront of the expeditionary air force concept. But how long can they last? Deployment side by side of Northrop Grumman B-2s and Boeing B-52s is set to become commonplace as the US Air Force seeks to ...
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Meet the family
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS Sabena of Belgium has begun its transition to an all-Airbus fleet, and is coming to grips with new procedures With the delivery of its first Airbus Industrie A321 on 2 March, Sabena began its conversion to an all-Airbus airline - the biggest re-equipment programme in ...
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Globalstar constellation grows
Four more Globalstar worldwide mobile communications satellites are in orbit following their launch aboard the second Starsem Soyuz-Ikar booster from Baikonur on 15 March. Starsem is a consortium involving Samara of Russia, Arianespace and Aerospatiale of France. The flight followed the first Starsem Soyuz launch on 9 February ...
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Air Anatolia aims to phase out A300s to reduce costs
Air Anatolia plans to phase out its fleet of Airbus A300s by next year and replace them with a mix of smaller types to reduce operating costs. The Turkish charter airline's deputy chief executive, Ahmet Karaman, says it wants to phase out its four 19- to 22-year-old A300B2/ B4s ...
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Airports
An Ogden-led consortium has been awarded a 20-year privatisation licence covering the international airports serving Santo Domingo, Puerto Plata, Samana and Barahona in the Dominican Republic. The consortium, which includes Vancouver Airport Services of Canada and Italian construction company Impregilo, says it will spend $400 million on improving the airports. ...
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Boeing's Renton production rate goes up to 32 a month
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing's production recovery plan appears to be on track following the roll-out at Renton on 9 March of the first two Next Generation 737s, built at the record production rate of 24 a month. Added to the company's five-a-month rate for the 757 and the dwindling ...